adept

Dawkins is an adept cultural fire-conductor; the title of his bestselling book The God Delusion gives a clear indicator why.

In critical ways, Russia remains technologically adept, but by its current behavior Russia is also revealed as morally destitute.

As a former law professor at several elite law schools, he is adept at discussing high constitutional theory.

Through the years he became just as adept at politics as he was on horseback.

Two weeks later, a different worker wrote that he was “getting more adept at caring for the child.”

He was skilful in out-door railway work, and an adept in managing trains and traffic.

In the conduct of his foreign relations, the Bruce proved himself an adept in diplomacy.

The cebus did not wait to be shown how to do things, but was an adept in devising ways to do them himself.

I could not feel comfortable in the seats and lounges, as they were very low, requiring an oriental squat at which I am not adept.

If Guy Oscard was no great adept at wordy warfare, he was at all events strong in his reception of punishment.